Too

Definition: Too

Too

Adverb

1. To an excessive degree; "too big".

2. In addition; "he has a Mercedes, too".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "too" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Too \Too\, adverb. [The same word as to, preposition. See To.]. (references)

TOO

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Too

Addition

Adverb: au reste, in addition, more, plus, extra; and, also, likewise, too, furthermore, further, item; and also, and eke; else, besides, to boot, et cetera and so on, and so forth; into the bargain, cum multis aliis, over and above, moreover.

Redundancy

Adverb: over, too, over and above; overmuch, too much; too far; without measure, beyond measure, out of measure; with.. to spare; over head and ears; up to one's eyes, up to one's ears; extra; beyond the mark; (transcursion); acervatim.

Crosswords: Too

Maori (stove).

I never had one. We were too poor (On the Town; writing credit: Adolph Green and Betty Comden)

Well, me too son. Me too (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

I'm gone too Miss Daisy (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry)

Not too bright, though (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

It happened to you too, but you were to young to remember (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

But I'm gaining pounds at the precipice of Too Late (Too Little Too Late; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

But we just can't stay together, don't you feel it too ("It's Too Late"; performing artist: Carole King)

And it's much too late for goodbyes (Too Late For Goodbyes; performing artist: Julian Lennon)

Too painful to (Never Too Far; performing artist: Mariah Carey)

It's so bad, it's too bad, it's stupid (Too Bad; performing artist: Nickelback)

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. (references; author: Groucho Marx)

Too much sun makes a desert. (references; author: Arabian Proverb)

A peacock has too little in its head and too much in its tail. (references; author: Swedish Proverb)

Average Employee: Not too bright. (references; author: unknown)

One-One was a racehorse. Two-Two was one, too. When One-One won one race, Two-Two won one, too. (references; author: unknown)

Tomorrow Is Too Late (1974)

Too Young (1974)

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (1974)

I Remember Too (1973)

Seven Days Too Long (1970)

I've Been Lonely Too Long (performing artist: The Young Rascals)

In Too Deep (performing artist: Genesis)

Too Funky (performing artist: George Michael)

Her Town Too (performing artist: James Taylor & J.D. Souther)

You Talk Too Much (performing artist: Joe Jones)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Too Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• The Men's Health Belly-Off Program: Discover How 80,000 Guys Lost Their Guts--And How You Can, Too! (reference)

• Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World (reference)

• Niels Henrik Abel and His Times: Called Too Soon by Flames Afar (reference)

• Too White to Be Black and Too Black to Be White: Living With Albinism (reference)

• Too Close to the Falls (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Us Too (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Jerry Springer: Too Hot for TV (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Too Cute! (reference)

• For Our Children Too!: To Benefit Pediatric AIDS Foundation (reference)

• It's Never Too Late to Annoy Your Parents (reference)

• Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch (reference)

• Ships Arriving Too Late to Save Drowing (Ltd Lp) [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Bug Too! (reference)

• Fellowes Winnie The Pooh & Tigger Too Mousepad - Disney Characters (reference)

• Disney's Animated Storybook: Winnie The Pooh & Tigger Too (Jewel Case) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies confirm that this patient's cutaneous t-cell lymph cancer involves the lymph nodes and skin. The antibodies collect in the cancerous lymph nodes of the armpits, neck and groin and a strong outline of the patient's body verifies skin involvement. The liver and spleen are darkened, too, because it is normal for these organs to collect the antibodies. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Note the bowed legs and enlarged right wrist. Nutritional Rickets is a condition in which children's bones are too soft, and do not develop properly due to a deficiency of vitamin D. Credit: CDC.

Evaluation of fecal smear technique. Top - good, Middle - too thin, Bottom - too thick. Credit: CDC.

"Canary" (movie) by Travis Casper. The actual graph flys much faster than this slowed down sequence, and it breathes, too.

Station NIU during reobservation of World Longitude stations Looking for evidence of continental drift Instruments too crude to measure small earth movements Astro party of Joseph Lushene. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

On way to Station Stump Down and out - too much mud. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A muskrat hut in a middle Patuxent river marsh. Observed at a very low tide. Early in the year so marsh grasses aren't too tall yet. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The Greenhill/East Timbalier dredge flow into natural marsh. Existing marsh will recover if not buried too deeply. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Caribou being butchered and skinned by Eskimo hunter at Leavitt Island Caribou steak that night and some for the dogs too!. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A large bull fur-seal probably too old to fight for a harem. Main part of rookery down to the left. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If this made the father free, it shall make the son free too. (Second Treatise of Government)

They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. (reference)

This is too extravagant to be maintained. (reference)

The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. (reference)

Do not let us take the course of allowing events to drift along until it is too late. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

The Does' complaint, based as it is on contingencies, any one or more of which may not occur, is too speculative to present an actual case or controversy. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey

If any thing, you are too attentive

I told him my name quite gently, for he was much too small to be angry with

These perceptions have come too late

The simple police of the Restoration looked too hopefully on the people of Paris

Who think too little, and who talk too much

The capuchin dress, he thought, was rather too.

Which since you come too late of our intent, Yet witness what you hear we did intend

Sell the team and the wagon, too.

The ceremonies at my departure were too many to trouble the reader with at this time

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Avoid consuming too much alcohol. (references)

They were potty-trained too early. (references)

Too much sodium makes you thirsty. (references)

Business

Hypermarkets are not too common in Germany. (references)

They too must register to have legal status. (references)

They too have a clear and present need for psychological counseling. (references)

Children

Israel and the occupied territories

The petitioners rejected this proposal as being too slow. (references)

Pakistan

However, even the high number of reported polio cases may be too low, and the reported protection rate may be too high. (references)

Nepal

Basic health care is provided free to children and adults at government clinics, but they are poorly equipped and too few in number to meet the demand. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

Many more are believed to be too poor to afford transportation or too weak to move. (references)

South Africa

Some religious communities believe that the Government is too lenient in regards to PAGAD. (references)

Uzbekistan

The church's pastor reports that he was told by the regional governor that the country already had too many churches. (references)

Discrimination

Namibia

Police are ordered to arrest you, and deport you and imprison you too." However, there were no reports that homosexuals were arrested, deported, or imprisoned during the year. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

Here too, fighting continues. (references)

China

Criminal penalties are too seldom applied. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

Witnesses are often too intimidated to testify. (references)

Nepal

There is a system of bail, but bonds are too expensive for most citizens. (references)

Mexico

In early December the President said that too much had been expected of him. (references)

Indigenous People

Sweden

As a result of such education, northern Sami dialects have enjoyed a renaissance; however, Sami dialects in the southern portions of traditional Sami lands may have too few native speakers to survive as living languages. (references)

Angola

Associacion Leonardo Sikufinde-Shalom Angola (ALASSA), a Catholic organization that advocates for indigenous people's rights, criticized the Government for providing plots that were too small and for failing to include persons most affected in government planning; the case continued at year's end. (references)

Minorities

India

Several human rights groups, however, believe that this number is too low. (references)

Political Economy

EL SALVADOR

These too are being deregulated. (references)

OMAN

Oman's economy is too small to require a complicated monetary policy. (references)

Botswana

Although the BDP easily won the last general elections, it too faces internal challenges. (references)

Political Rights

Zambia

Provisions for a continuous registration system were enacted too late to be of use in the December 27 elections. (references)

Indonesia

A number of constitutional changes, MPR decrees, and legal changes have enhanced legislative branch authorities, raising some concerns that the balance of power may have shifted too far from the executive branch. (references)

Mali

Despite governmental pressure to move ahead with decentralization, the nonparliamentary opposition says that the Government is moving too fast and should implement the process step by step as administrators lack adequate funding to govern effectively. (references)

Trade

Romania

If BIR doesn't find ways agreed by the NBR to re-capitalize the bank, it will be shut down, too. (references)

West Bank

The New Israeli Shekel (NIS) circulates in the area, and so this currency, too, is a legal means of payment. (references)

Hong Kong

The list of Hong Kong based banks with correspondent U.S. banking arrangements is too large to include here. (references)

Travel

Israel

Visitors should be wary of any food that may have been exposed too long to the hot, open air, temperatures. (references)

Czech Rep

Most Czechs want to build long-term, two-way business relationships, and will be put off by too much emphasis on an immediate sale. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

The general rule is that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is, and even a simple reply might cause future problems. (references)

Women

Russia

Some forms of battering are addressed in the Criminal Code but are defined too narrowly to apply to most cases. (references)

Argentina

NGO's working in the area of women's rights stress that women too often do not have a full understanding of their rights. (references)

Switzerland

Since the man is the primary wage earner in most marriages, when the income is too low to support both parties, it is usually the wife (and children) who are forced to survive on public assistance. (references)

Worker Rights

Pakistan

Labor leaders continued to criticize the reform package as too limited in scope. (references)

Pakistan

When they become too old to race, they are sent back to the country and left to fend for themselves. (references)

Kazakhstan

The progovernment Federation of Trade Unions claims 4 million members; however, observers believe that figure is too high. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "too": a little too small ♦ all this and heaven too ♦ all too ♦ all too few ♦ all too soon ♦ ask too much ♦ ask too much of ♦ be too ♦ be too early ♦ be too expensive ♦ be too familiar ♦ be too fussy ♦ be too much ♦ be too noisy ♦ be too particular ♦ be too tight ♦ become too small ♦ before too long ♦ carry things too far ♦ carry too far ♦ carry too many guns for one ♦ carry too much sail ♦ color too highly ♦ don't be too hopeful ♦ don't go too far a field ♦ don't ride him too hard ♦ drink too much ♦ eat too much ♦ far too much ♦ feel one too many ♦ feel too ♦ get too big for one's boots ♦ go too ♦ go too far ♦ have a glass too much ♦ have too high an opinion of oneself ♦ have too many eggs in one basket imprudent ♦ have too many irons in the fire ♦ he takes things too seriously ♦ he's had a drop too much ♦ i'm not too comfortable about it ♦ Interjection: it is too bad! it won't do ♦ is too hot ♦ it is too cold ♦ it is too expensive ♦ it is too hot ♦ it takes up too much room ♦ it was too funny for words! ♦ it's really too bad! ♦ it's too expensive ♦ it's too much ♦ make too much ♦ make too much of ♦ make too tight ♦ me too ♦ none too ♦ none too good ♦ none too soon ♦ not a minute too soon ♦ not a moment too soon ♦ not any too ♦ not be too hard upon ♦ not too ♦ not too well ♦ not too worried ♦ only too ♦ open smb.'s mouth too wide ♦ pay too dear for one's whistle ♦ pay too much ♦ push too far ♦ put too great a strain on ♦ put too high a value on smth. ♦ put too much strain on ♦ sail too near the wind ♦ screw loose: too many cooks ♦ set too much value on smth. ♦ speak too much ♦ spend too much money ♦ take a drop too much ♦ take on too much ♦ take too extremes ♦ that is too much for me ♦ that is too much! ♦ that's a bit too thick ♦ that's rather too much! ♦ that's too bad! ♦ that's too high price to ♦ that's too much for me ♦ that's too much! ♦ the place being too hot to hold one ♦ there's too much noise ♦ think too much of ♦ this coat is too loose ♦ 'tis too true ♦ too bad ♦ too bad! ♦ too big for one's breeches ♦ too clever by half ♦ too early ♦ too easy ♦ too easy going. Additional references.

Beginning with "too": too-abstract, too-big, too-bright, too-busy, too-careful, too-circular, too-clever-by-half, too-close, too-dainty, too-deep, too-distant, too-eager, too-early, too-easy, too-expensive, too-fab-for-words, too-faithful, too-far-miles, too-fast, too-fat, too-free, too-frequent, too-frequently, too-friendly, too-generous, too-gentle, too-greedy, too-grim, too-happy, too-hasty, too-heavy, too-high, too-honest, too-hot, too-i, too-individualistic, too-it, too-large, too-little-seen, too-long, too-long-ignored, too-long-neglected, too-low, too-much, too-narrow, too-obtrusive, too-obvious, too-pale, too-penguins, too-polite, too-powerful, too-public, too-rapid, too-readily, too-ready, too-real, too-recent, too-rich, too-sensible-for-his-own-good, too-shiny, too-short, too-similar, too-slow, too-small, too-small-for-comfort, too-sober, too-soft, too-stiff, too-strict, too-strong, too-subtle, too-sweet, too-thorough, too-tight, too-too, too-ugly, too-vivid, too-well, too-well-celebrated, too-well-informed, too-wit, too-young.

Ending with "too": all-too, me-too.

Containing "too": all-too-brief, all-too-common, all-too-familiar, all-too-often, none-too-gentle, not-too-distant.

Afrikaans

te (to, too much), ook (also, likewise). (various references)

Albanian

gjithashtu (also, as well, both, eke, furthermore, likewise, moreover, so), edhe (also, and, likewise, though). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كذلك (as well, ditto, likewise, so, then), ‏زيادة على (overly), ‏علاوة على ذلك (further, furthermore, moreover, over and above, then), ‏أيضا (also, and, as well, furthermore, likewise, so, then, yet). (various references)

Basque

hotzegi (too cold), gehiegi (too much), beroegi (too hot). (various references)

Breton

re. (various references)

Bulgarian 

също и (also, so), също (also, as well, besides, ditto, eke, item, same), твърде (overly, pretty, rather), освен това (again, also, besides, else, further, furthermore, moreover, then, withal), прекомерно (deep, excessively, overly, unduly), прекалено (unduly, with a vengeance), при това (besides, furthermore, moreover, withal), извънредно много (enormously, inestimably), и то. (various references)

Catalan

massa (too much). (various references)

Chinese 

汰 (to discard, to eliminate), 也是, 也 (also), 太 (extremely, greatest, highest, very), 以及 (and, as well as). (various references)

Croatian

suviše (too much). (various references)

Czech

také (also, as well), též, moc (authority, badly, clout, enormously, force, forcefulness, might, mighty, much, potency, power, strength, sway, very). (various references)

Danish

for (by, for, from, of, on, since, to, too much, toward, towards), også (also, likewise). (various references)

Dutch

te (at, by, in, inside, into, on, per, to, too much, upon, within, without), ook (also, as well, certainly, indeed, likewise, rather, surely), mede (also, likewise, mead), evenzeer (alike, all the same, also, equally, likewise), eveneens (also, equally, likewise). (various references)

Esperanto

tro (too much). (various references)

Estonian

liiga. (various references)

Faeroese

ov (too much), eisini (also, likewise). (various references)

Farsi 

همچنین (Also, Eke), هم (Both, Even, Likewise), نیز (Again, Also, Both, Likewise), زیاد (Copious, Extortionary, Far, Generous, Great, Heavy, High, Immoderate, Intense, Late, Liberal, Manifold, Many, Much, Populous, Rife, Superabundant, Thick, Vast, Very, Wide), بیش ازحدلزوم (Unnecessary), بحدافراط, بعلاوه (Again, Also, Beside, Besides, Far, Forby, Further, Likewise, Moreover, Plus, Thereto, Therewith). (various references)

Finnish

myös (also, as well, likewise), liian, liiaksi (too much). (various references)

Flemish

te (to). (various references)

French

trop (too much), aussi. (various references)

French Canadian

trop. (various references)

Frisian

ek (also, likewise). (various references)

Galician

demasiado. (various references)

German

zu (a, an, as, at, at the rate of, beside, bought in addition, closed, for, in, inside, into, off, on, per, shut, to, too much, toward, towards, unto, with, within), auch (also, as well, even, likewise, so), ebenfalls (also, as well, ditto, likewise). (various references)

Greek 

πάρα πολύ (a hell of a lot of, extremely, immensely, keenly, only too, over, very much). (various references)

Guarani

hepyetereíma (it is too expensive). (various references)

Haitian Creole

twò. (various references)

Hawaiian

gjithashtu (also, likewise), edhe (also, and, likewise). (various references)

Hebrew 

יותר מדי (more than necessary, overmuch, too many, too much), אף (also, anger, even, no, nose, snout, wrath), כמו כן (also, likewise, so), גם כן (also, as well), גם (also, and, as well, either, even), ביותר (exceedingly, most, sorely, surpassingly, the most). (various references)

Hungarian

is (also, as well, eke, elfin, likewise), túlságosan (beyond measure, inordinately, overly, overmuch, tenuous distinctions, unduly), túl (above all, across, beyond, excess, luscious, over, past, past bearing, premature, skittish, to be rising forty, to overstay, upwards), szintén (also, as well, eke, likewise). (various references)

Icelandic

of (too much). (various references)

Indonesian

terlalu (exceedingly, extremely, so, very), sangat (immensely, shockingly, transcend, very), kelewat (above, excessive, over, passed by, surpassed). (various references)

Irish

róthrom (too heavy), róthe (too hot), rómhór (too big), róluath (too early), róghearr (too short), rófhuar (too cold), rófhada (too long), ródhaor (too expensive), róbhruite (too medium), fólair (too much). (various references)

Italian

troppo (over, overly, overmuch, so, too many, too much), anche (also, as well, besides, even, farther, likewise, so, still). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

余りに (excessively, too much), にして置く (also, as well, broad grin, even, grin, maintain status-quo, not... either, slimy, smile, smile sweetly), だからと言って (also, and, and so forth, and the like, and what not, as might be expected, baggy, because, because ~, but, even, however, if it's the case, just because, loose, nevertheless, not just ...., not necessarily, or, out of fashion, primitive, unsophisticated, while it may be true that). (various references)

Japanese Katakana